SKUNK ANANSIE- 5th April 2025- Birmingham O2 Academy, UK

There’s something calling in the air tonight and it’s sure as hell not anything Phil Collins has sung about recently! It’s surprisingly cold after a lovely day of Birmingham sunshine but there’s band shirts everywhere and in fact if there’s to be a tenuous reference this early on to a completely unrelated but yet well … Read more

DEEP PURPLE’S LATEST ALBUM ‘=1’. RELEASE DATE 19TH JULY VIA EAR MUSIC – REVIEW

  The axiom “Deep Purple are not Deep Purple without Ritchie Blackmore” is an albatross which has hung over anything Gillan et al. produce for what seems like eons, and in truth, given it’s 31 years since Blackmore graced the stage with the original Jesus Christ Superstar vocalist it seems a misnomer to call it … Read more